Author: Author of My confessionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Zillah, The Child Medium
Author: Author of My confessionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Possessed Victorians
Author: Sarah A. WillburnPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351909762
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
In her absorbing study of nineteenth-century mystical writings, Sarah Willburn formulates a new conception of individualism that offers a fresh look at Victorian subjectivity. Drawing upon extensive archival work in the British Library, Willburn analyzes séance accounts, novels about mediumship, and metaphysical treatises to make important connections between contemporary writings on mysticism and fictional works. Willburn presents the theories of compelling characters such as Newton Crosland and Lois Waisbrooker and provides exciting new readings of well-known texts by Charlotte Brontë, Eliot, Martineau, and Corelli. An understanding of the Victorian fascination with mysticism, Willburn argues, leads to a better appreciation of cultural constructions of the citizen in England and of the public sphere. She introduces two key concepts against the backdrop of popular mysticism: "possessed individualism," a model for Victorian individualism based on spiritual possession, and "extra spheres," which complicate the traditional binary opposition of public and private. Together, these formulations urge us to rethink our views of Victorian political economy and gender as they pertain to mystical and religious practices.
Class List for English Prose Fiction
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Class List for English Prose Fiction, Including Translations and Juvenile Books, with Notes for Readers, Intended to Point Out for Parallel Reading the Historical Sources of Works of Fiction
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: Lower Hall
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Putnam's Monthly
Author: Lower hall. Class list for English prose fiction
Author: Boston Mass, publ. librPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
American Publishers' Circular and Literary Gazette
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Author: